Oxford Area High School to present "How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying"

Oxford Area High School will bring back the era of Camelot and Mad Men when the classic 1962 Broadway musical How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is presented on Thursday and Friday, March 1 and 2 at 7 p.m. and Saturday, March 3 at 2 p.m. in the auditorium of the school located at 705 Waterway Road, East Nottingham.

Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students, children and senior citizens. Tickets can be ordered by e-mail to oahsmusical@gmail.com or by calling 610-998-9691.

This lively musical comedy gets its title from the self-help book whose lessons are taken to heart by J. Pierrepont Finch (Christian Kelly) who works as a skyscraper window cleaner. Finch soon finds himself on the bottom rung of the corporate ladder at World Wide Wicket Corporation, but does not intend to remain there for long.

Finch manages to endear himself to the company's president, J.B. Biggley (Var Coberly) while working in the mailroom alongside J.B.'s slacker nephew Bud Frump (Thomas Sumner) and falling for secretary Rosemary Pilkington (Sarah Robinson). Finch soon learns that the road to success and true love is a rocky one at best.

How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying features a score by Frank Loesser, and features the standard "I Believe in You," "The Company Way," "Been A Long Day" and many more. The show is being directed by band instructor Erin Kauppila and choral instructor Julie Skrapits.

Finch keeps an ear to the mailroom chatter along with cast members, from left, Jake Billings, Alanna Amonitti, Julie Zook and Joe Cosentino.